Express By Holiday Inn Krakow

We drove down from Berlin to Warsaw. IT WAS ****! Rock hard beds that suck BIG ONE'S! Oh and if you want to stand on the balcony and see the view FOR GET ABOUT THAT 'COS THE RAILING'S COMING OFF!!! Anyway so when we got to Krakow we went to the center of town and had a great dinner that had been in the Michelin guide 2008 and 2009. The Michelin guide is a guide ( obviously ) to all the top restaurant's around the world. I got a new pair of shoes there as well. The next day we went to Auschwit...

Got up a 7 as we need to be ready to catch the tour bus by 830am. After going around all of Krakow hotels we ended up about 500m from our starting point to change bus direction Auschwitz. We were finally on the way by 1030ama and the bus took us there by 1130. Well here we are, not much to say there as a picture is worth a thousand words. We then took the bus back to Birkeneau for a quick tour, then back to the hotel. We hoped in the car ... back to the town centre for diner. Now way I am get...

24th May - Krakow - Contiki After leaving Budapest at 7:45 we stopped for lunch at Banska Bystrica in Slovakia for 2 hours. We then got to Krakow around 4 and after tea we went into town with the group. First stop was the Shot Bar where we had some very cheap vodka shots. We went to another bar after that before ending the night at a Nightclub called Prozak. It was a good night and as it was Saturday it was busy everywhere. 25th May - Krakow - Contiki We left the Hotel at 9am for a city drive...

After leaving Budapest at 7:45 we stopped for lunch at Banska Bystrica in Slovakia for 2 hours. We then got to Krakow around 4 and after tea we went into town with the group. First stop was the Shot Bar where we had some very cheap vodka shots. We went to another bar after that before ending the night at a Nightclub called Prozak. It was a good night and as it was Saturday it was busy everywhere. We left the Hotel at 9am for a city drive and walk tour. Our first stop was Kazimierz which was t...

After Jasna Gora, we arrived at BIRKENAU, (Auschwitz 2) and only had 20 minutes to walk around. A watch tower and the railroad tracks that the prisoners arrived on were the first things that came into sight. Upon entering, barbed wire fences separated the area in 2 sections and were on either side of the tracks. The prisoner's barracks were to the right of the tracks. Signs tell the history and explain the set-up of the camp near the barracks. This was the part we saw. Everyone was pretty qui...

It's said to be Poland's most beautiful city and may have to agree. It started with meeting our local guide, a young blond who always seemed to be smiling. She took us to the Jewish quarter, KAZIMIERZ to which we saw an area where a scene from Schindler's List was filmed. This part also had a memorial to the Jewish from WW II, a synagogue and the birthplace of Helena Rubinstein, one of the richest women in the world. Walking the hill to Wawel Castle, an ivy covered area came into view. I was ...